From sci.chem Mon Dec  2 12:41:36 1996
From: JCEVANS@BIOLOGY.uwaterloo.ca (J Evans)

This is a milder accident tale.  A friend of mine was teaching a lab in an 
unnamed western college when two students came up and told him that their 
bunsen burner wouldn't light and that, yes, they had left the gas on full 
blast while they came to ask him about it.  He ran over to the bench to find 
(to his relief) that the bunsen burner was hooked up to the air line by 
mistake.  After sorting this out, he turned to the next bench just in time to 
see the reaction of another student pair who, not to be outdone, had hooked up 
THEIR bunsen burner to a high-pressure water outlet.....
	Then there was the student who set the entire lab bench on fire 
because s(he) not only boiled alcohol over a bunsen flame, but chose to do so 
in a cracked beaker....